Regarding testing EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION descriptor of UEFI
Roderick W. Smith
rod.smith at canonical.com
Tue Sep 30 13:40:58 UTC 2014
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On 09/30/2014 01:04 AM, rani at neoera.in wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to find an example how the EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION
> descriptor as defined in UEFI spec can be tested using fwts. The
> sources do not seem to help on that front. Does anyone have some
> pointers in this regard ? I can do the dirty work if someone can
> help point how to achieve this.
>
> Does anyone know of any other examples anywhere in Linux community
> where someone may have written a program to create a variable with
> this descriptor ? A quick google search does not result in much
> help.
It's not Linux code, but I did find one use of
EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION_2 (not EFI_VARIABLE_AUTHENTICATION) in the
Clover boot loader. See clover/entry_scan/securevars.c. You can find
Clover at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clover/
- --
Rod Smith
Server and Cloud Certification Engineer
rod.smith at canonical.com
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